Extra Thoughts

Lydia McGrew's personal, biblical studies, and apologetics blog

Friday, December 25, 2015

Behold the face of God: Christmas and the scandal of particularity

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In a debate with John Lennox several years ago, in which Lennox emphasizes the historical evidence for Christianity, Richard Dawkins scornfu...
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Thursday, December 24, 2015

The Way of the Wandering Star at W4

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In the next day I hope to put up some Christmas thoughts of my own. After all, this evening is only the beginning of the Christmas season. ...
Friday, December 18, 2015

A brief note on "do Muslims and Christians worship the same God"

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I almost put this on my Facebook wall but decided it fits here better: It is important to recognize the difference between the way that th...
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Monday, December 14, 2015

How Bright Appears the Morning Star

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I was moved to reflect this past Sunday how incredibly fortunate I am to attend a church that uses an older hymnal. My continuing Anglican c...
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Friday, December 11, 2015

Giving content to complementarianism without giving in to the creeps [updated]

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I recently learned of the existence of this video concerning complementarianism. As I said here, while it is pretty clear that Mary Kassian...
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Sunday, December 06, 2015

Anti-Israel Derangement Syndrome

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In an earlier post I wrote, concerning Israel, "So my fundamental sense of fair play is moved to note these things and take the side th...
Saturday, December 05, 2015

Exchange on doctors killing jihadis and Himmler

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Over at Triablogue I'm having an interesting back-and-forth with Steve Hays, who has proposed that it would be moral for doctors activel...
Thursday, November 26, 2015

Happy Thanksgiving

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To my readers at Extra Thoughts, a happy Thanksgiving. My Thanksgiving post in full is up at What's Wrong With the World. It incorporat...
Wednesday, November 25, 2015

"Excuse me, I'm having trouble finding this nonsense in my Bible"

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Tomorrow or late tonight I will be putting up a Thanksgiving post at What's Wrong With the World, and I will link that from here as well...
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Monday, November 23, 2015

Does dissing home schooling make you shallow?

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My title is deliberately provocative, of course. It was prompted by this silly little list, "12 Signs You Were Definitely Home Schoo...
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Friday, November 20, 2015

The apologetic value of the fall and the tension with theistic evolution of man

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I have long thought that there is an argument to be made for the Judeo-Christian teaching of the fall of man quite independent of more direc...
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Sunday, November 15, 2015

On France

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What's Wrong With the World has a post up about the ISIS attacks in France, and I would not for a moment want to detract from that. In ...
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Monday, November 09, 2015

The pity of it all

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I have a new post up at What's Wrong With the World. Its theme is why Matt Walsh is a healthy corrective to some bad trends in our Wes...
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Sunday, November 08, 2015

Sunday quotes on writing: Elizabeth Goudge

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Writing a book is much the same as any other kind of creative work, painting or carpentry or embroidery or having a baby, an act compounded...
Wednesday, October 21, 2015

So impossibly hard to be a wise saint

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[B]ecause in the realms both of vision and morality he was in the kindergarten, his effort at self-expression was comparable to a child...
Tuesday, October 20, 2015

A pro-abortion canard

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If you've spent much time at all arguing with those who are pro-abortion, you've doubtless heard this canard: "Scientists think...
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Monday, October 12, 2015

Blogging about Israel

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Quite some time ago a comment showed up for moderation, which I did not moderate. It was creepy in a variety of ways. But one thing that it ...
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Monday, October 05, 2015

Embrace the cross

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It has been much, much too long since we had a music post. It is my longstanding contention that we Protestants need to beef up our theolo...
Saturday, September 26, 2015

All conspiracy theories great and small

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In this post I'm going to talk about something I don't usually discuss--namely, conspiracy theories including the set of theories su...
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